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Reminder that Apple uses a technology literally invented in 1984 to brainwash their users into thinking anyone using a non-Apple device is poor.
This lie is rampant and reinforced by the billionaire CEO of Apple, the richest company to ever exist.
Apple intentionally makes their devices bad at communicating with other devices because it means kids without Apple devices might get bullied into giving Apple more money. Apple knows this, and plays into it.
if you are an #android user, do yourselves the favor of installing F-Droid, the #FLOSS and anti-surveillance app store. any apps that connect you to upstream surveillance services (like Google Search) are clearly marked as anti-privacy.
The DMA is having an impact and the choice screen is coming! Soon you will be asked to select your browser of choice, when setting up a new phone or updating it. This only applies in the EU and Europe, at this time.
While F-Droid appears to be "just" an alternative #OpenSource#AppStore for #Android, it is actually the apex of a lifestyle movement that's choosing to use Android only with #FreeSoftware and without #Google or advertising-related #surveillance. Realising that makes many of its features - and shortcomings - easier to understand. I was the main interviewer in the discussion this week on #FLOSS Weekly with core @fdroidorg developer @eighthave and it was a good show.
I have been building browsers for 30 years now. First Opera and now Vivaldi. My estimate is that more than 1 billion have used one of my browsers or both. Have you?
The just-released #Firefox 120 for #Android opens up to add-ons. There are already 50 of them available and the number should grow quickly as more add-ons get verified.
I've installed #Ghostery to get rid of cookie pop-ups. What a relief.
If you are not using Firefox on Android, I highly recommend giving it a try. It's been my daily driver for years and it's gotten really good and no other relevant mobile #browser has such a wide variety of add-ons available AFAIK.
I really like using @Flipboard as a Mastodon client, flipping from toot to toot post. Lots of features.
From their app page, "Pixelfed is now on Flipboard (in beta): Connect your Pixelfed account and flip through your feed. Like, comment, and share to Pixelfed via Flipboard. Plus, save photos from Pixelfed into a Flipboard Magazine."
This is a big story. In a way the idea of a antivirus company or a browser company actively gathering user data for marketing purposes just feels so foreign, but still it is far too normal.
Most of the largest browser companies are also ad companies.
Bitte lasst die Finger von den Wetter-Apps im Play Store. Die meisten sind voll mit Tracking und Werbung. Wenn ihr eine aus dem Play Store nehmen wollt, dann die App »WarnWetter« vom Deutschen Wetterdienst. In F-Droid gibt es Alternativen. 👇
Soon it will be possible to run browsers on iOS that are not using Webkit. That is a big deal.
Apple is trying to frame it as dangerous.
Sadly it will only possible to run those browsers in the EU and browser makers need then to provide different browsers in the EU and outside. This requires more resources, which makes it harder for smaller developers.
Apple also wants developers to pay for the right to provide downloads from other app stores, which now become possible in the EU, and directly.
IMHO every user on an iPhone, as well as on any other device, should be allowed to run the browser of their choice!
We've received a few questions lately from the community inquiring about what Flipboard is, so we wanted to share a bit about our mission to inform and inspire the world.
You might also be familiar with our moves to federate our platform.
We are also an award-winning app/website where publishers, creators, and community members curate content about topics ranging from politics to philosophy. If you want to check it out, download it here, follow topics that interest you, and let us know what you think. We'd love to hear from you.
This month it is 30 years since I started working on browsers. April 1994 is when Geir and I started working on the Opera browser. We founded the company a year later.
Initially I made the UI, while Geir did a lot of the core.
Since that time I have dedicated myself to making the Web live up to its potential. First at Opera and now at Vivaldi.
If you ever used Opera and you have not tried Vivaldi, I invite you to give us a try!
If you never used Opera or Vivaldi, you are invited as well!
More bug fixes, including F-Droid metadata! Material 3 progress and targeting Android 14. All this AND glimpses of a two-app future in the April 2024 Progress Report for Thunderbird for Android. 📱 ✨
Google is about to make life more difficult for custom ROM fans (www.androidauthority.com)
Google has quietly deprecated the Messages and Dialer apps in AOSP, and it could have ramifications for upstart brands and custom ROM fans.
RIP to my Pixel Fold: Dead after four days (arstechnica.com)
The closed display halves almost touch, and that can smash debris into the screen.